The Election Commission (EC) has extended the voter list updating deadline till April 27 next for those whose data could not be collected or dropped from the latest updating process.
"More importantly, the process to be a voter through online will continue all time,” Election Commission Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said at a press briefing on primary data collected for updating the voter list at Nirbachan Bhaban in Agargaon, Dhaka on Tuesday.
He said their field-level officials collected data on 49 lakh, 70, 388 people, who are eligible to be voters, till Monday (last date) of the door-to-door data collection campaign that started on January 20 simultaneously in the country.
“Those whose data were collected will be listed as voters on completion of the registration process,” he said.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced today an outline of national health sector reforms with the aim of building a universal health system in Bangladesh on the model of the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS).
Party Standing Committee member and former Health Minister Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain presented the outline at a press conference at the political office of the BNP Chairperson in Gulshan this morning.
The senior BNP leader said that just as quality health services have not yet been ensured for the marginalized population, medical education is not planned today.
"Our medical system has not achieved the desired competitiveness at the regional and international levels so that the general public still has a high rate of going abroad to receive medical services," he said.
The Public Administration Reform Commission has made over 100 feasible recommendations, commission chief Abdul Muyeed Chowdhury has said.
The commission report will be submitted to the Chief Adviser around 12:30 pm on Wednesday, said Abdul Muyeed while talking to reporters at the Secretariat on Tuesday.
“Our report was initially scheduled to be submitted last month, but we needed more time as we engaged in fieldwork, held discussions with people at district and upazila levels, and collected feedback online. Based on these inputs, we finalised and signed the report today,” he said.
The commission chairman declined to disclose details of the recommendations but said that they exceed 100 in number.
Importers have suspended the import of fruit through Benapole land port for an indefinite period protesting government decision to impose additional import duties.
No fruit-carrying trucks have entered the port since Tuesday morning as per the importers decision.
The move came after the government raised the supplementary duty on imported fresh fruit from 20 percent to 30 percent on January 9.
Importers said the additional duty has made fruit imports unfeasible, leading to the drastic step of halting imports altogether.
Fruit importer Abdul Mannan said that the Bangladesh Fresh Food Association had previously urged the government to withdraw the additional duty.
As their demand was not met the traders decided to stop fruit imports indefinitely.